Grave-mounds and their contents; a manual of archaeology, as exemplified in the burials of the Celtic, the Romano-British, and the Anglo-Saxon periods (1870)
elow the surface. The cist wasformed between two portions of natural rock, and protectedat its entrance by a large flat stone set up edgwise, andother stones filled up the interstices at the sides. It wasalso covered with a large flat stone. On clearing away thesurrounding earth, after removing the… … .jtWiTT Iti The accompanying engraving (fig. n) will show the openedcist, with the stone across its entrance, and the intermentin situ. In front of the skeleton, and close to its hands,was a remarkably good and perfect food vessel, which wasrichly ornamented with the diagonal and herring-bone…
Mounds · Megalithic monuments
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